Forwarding

Forwarding may refer to:

*Call forwarding, a telephony feature that allows calls to one phone number to be forwarded to another number
*Cisco Express Forwarding, an advanced layer 3 switching technology used mainly on the enterprise core network or the Internet
*E-mail forwarding, a mechanism by which a mail server sends the emails of one of its user's to another address
*Forwarding equivalence class, a set of packets with similar or identical characteristics that may be forwarded the same way
*Freight forwarding, a service by which an individual or company dispatches shipments via common carriers
*Mail forwarding, a service that redirects mail from one address to another
*Packet forwarding, the relaying of packets from one network segment to another by nodes in a computer network
*Port forwarding, the act of forwarding a network port from one network node to another
*Remote call forwarding, a telephony feature that allows call forwarding to be activated remotely
* Multicast Reverse path forwarding, a technique used in multicast routing to ensure loop free topologies
* Unicast Reverse path forwarding, a feature of Internet Protocol routers that is used to reduce the risk of customers attacking other Internet hosts
*Timber forwarding, the transport of logs from the stump to the forest road.
*URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, domain redirection and domain forwarding, a technique that forwards web page visitors to another page, which may or may not be on another domain, depending the purpose of the forwarding